The Best Postman Alternative with Scratch Pad Support

Postman stopped supporting Scratch Pad

Postman used to be my favorite API debugging tool until it stopped supporting Scratch Pad. As you all know starting from Postman v10 we can’t anymore use Collections/Environments stuff etc. Due to our company's privacy restrictions, we cannot store our sensitive API data on third-party cloud databases.

So, I have been looking for a Postman alternative recently. I tried Insomnia, Thunder Client, and even Bruno, but they all share a common drawback: they cannot fully integrate with my existing Postman API data. Although they offer data migration features, my test scripts do not run smoothly, which is frustrating.

What next?

For me, I just want a product that meets two requirements:

1. Fully supports offline use without needing an account;
2. Compatible with Postman's scripting syntax.

I had been searching for such a tool for a long time until I found EchoAPI, which perfectly matches my needs.

EchoAPI has several features that I really like:

1. Fully supports Scratch Pad without requiring login;
2. 100% compatible with Postman's scripting syntax;
3. For someone like me who frequently uses VS Code for programming, they also offer a powerful plugin, so I don't need to install a bulky Electron client;
4. EchoAPI also provides a Chrome extension called EchoAPI-Interceptor, which can easily capture all requests from a website, similar to Charles. The benefit is that I can also modify parameters and debug within EchoAPI-Interceptor.

Conclusion

In addition to HTTP APIs, EchoAPI also supports the creation and debugging of SSE, TCP, and Markdown types. It also features automatic API documentation generation, making it highly recommended.